when a mathematician writes something like ℝ/ℤ what she's saying is the ships the reals with the integers

Sun is out! Reading philosophy! Drinking matcha! Cafe is playing Clairo! We're so back

Berlin is bankrupting me the book stores are just too good

I need a holiday to recover from having 3 ridiculously busy days preparing to be on holiday

Am definitely interpreting formative as influential rather than early with this selection, but this spans a lot of my life

Five words every woman wants to hear: this is an abelian group

Tag line for philosophy as a discipline

if i had an old wife i would listen to all of her tales

retweet to make a constructivist mad

Blink was a super interesting watch! I have a tendency to really focus on form when thinking about things like this - both the overlapping monologues and the staging were very cool, very efficient writing. But, also undeniably viscerally emotional in a way I really enjoyed.

Little haul from gay's the word.

Was asked at a comedy show about valentine's stories and was reminded of the time my highschool boyfriend very badly forged Jacqueline Wilson's signature for me 😭 Not made up my mind whether this was a red flag or not

Just gave a fun talk about some of Maddy's philosophy, very happy that I successfully had people arguing in the coffee room for an hour afterwards 😈

Macbeth: SHIT

Currently on hour 1 out of 9 in Prague airport. I have talk slides to write for tomorrow, currently unsure whether this will be the best rehearsed talk in history, or if I'll emerge having read half of Wikipedia with 5 questionable podcast ideas.

women only love diamonds in this world. they love squares in all worlds.

New video about maths communication! What makes Numberphile videos so effective? I analyse how these videos explain maths, and try talking about the Monty Hall problem in the iconic Numberphile style myself. @bradyharan.bsky.social youtu.be/MsCp0In-5As?...

Boygenius played on only connect this is my barbenhiemer

Conic Sections xkcd.com/3189/

Just saw Marty Supreme, I liked it but truly I feel like I need 24 hours to digest it before I can give any sensible opinions

Spent this evening watching good will hunting, then doing the graph theory exercise in good will hunting

Escher exhibit - there was some decent exposition about tessalation in hyperbolic geometry!

Why did no one tell me the movie arrival was bad

I've been doing long days marking undergrad work for like a week straight, my break today has been learning sad Radiohead covers on guitar ... TBD if this is a cry for help

in a better world arXiv has always had the policy that all papers must be in esperanto

Just picked up a planner for 2026, very charmed by the addition of this page at the back

Jonathan Schilhan Transcendence degrees over mutually generic extensions https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02725

I'm such a stationary hoarder that I'm currently writing notes for a paper I'll write for my PhD in a notebook that mostly contains my GCSE history notes on WW2 😭

So they renewed line of duty for another season, and I very confidently told my girlfriend that the first 3 seasons are some of the best TV I've seen - am now rewatching to see if this opinion formed by undergrad me holds up

Can someone give me like an extra year of PhD funding please I wanna think about hat problems

in case you didn’t know, in a year voyager 1 will be 1 light-DAY away from earth. it took almost 50 YEARS of travel time to reach that distance and will be the first human-made object to reach this distance.

Been really enjoying listening to tiny desk concerts while I mark recently, had the Nile Rodgers one especially on repeat

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Enaldo Valadares)

Got too much maths on the brain, I've been spelling the chef's name Gordon Ramsey 😭

Was recognised in the noodle place near campus for being a regular and given a loyalty card, super sweet!

I spent most of today marking, so I'd like to shout out caffeine, noise cancelling headphones and MF Doom

Idk why but the clocks changing is definitely responsible for my overwhelming urge to rewatch old doctor who

I should time myself on whether making beamer slides or drawing iPad slides is quicker for a maths talk because truly I have no idea

love to see an argument broken up into steps, labelled by how mysterious each step is

Genuine shout out to the student who submitted a picture of their group theory problem sheet for me to mark that was very clearly taken at the pub

This is a real sign from a real deli near the Wesleyan math department, and they put it up because the mathematicians were too engrossed in their mathematics discussions to efficiently order sandwiches. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

This is the answer I wish I had time to give when people ask me what I do for work at parties!

Peter Holy, Jonathan Schilhan The Ordering Principle and Higher Dependent Choice https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14821

Today's self care has been going on a run in the rain, doing the marking I've been putting off, and belting radiohead while I made pesto pasta. 10/10 Sunday

One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!

I just had an absolutely delightful afternoon talking about #infinity with @hopeiona.bsky.social, for a special episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast. Tune in next Wednesday to hear about the history and the now of infinity. #talkingmaths #mathsky #mathshistory

The problem class I'm teaching that requires speaking to everyone individually is in a sloped lecture theatre with a different door for every row ... I've just spent an hour vaulting over and sitting on tables like I'm trying to be a cool supply teacher

lots of pain in the world but sometimes you stumble on a stranger’s obsessive wikipedia table. michelangelo had the sistine chapel, this guy had the “guess who” article. perhaps both sacred

Started using anki again for German vocab which I'm really happy about, but directional and positional verbs are really kicking my ass rn